The New Yorker

Nearer My Comstock to Thee!—Elmer Gantry: Man of God—the Nineties Not So Naughty—a History of Caricature

PERHAPS all the fuss about purity is nothing but a subtle publicity device to draw attention to this learned and scholarly tome, “Anthony Comstock, Roundsman of the Lord,” upon which the leisure of ...
insider.si.edu

Imperiled innocents Anthony Comstock and family reproduction in Victorian America Nicola Beisel

1. Introduction: Family Reproduction, Children's Morals, and Censorship -- 2. The City, Sexuality, and the Suppression of Abortion and Contraception -- 3. Moral Reform and the Protection of Youth -- 4 ...
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Lust on trial : censorship and the rise of American obscenity in the age of Anthony Comstock / Amy Werbel

NPMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the ...
SFGate

Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America’s most prolific censor

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) If past is prologue, these efforts may backfire. In 2018, I published my book “Lust on ...